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Linux Receiving Fix For AMD Radeon Polaris GPUs Producing Lots Of Log Spam

Phoronix - Fri, 07/18/2025 - 02:34
For those using an AMD Radeon RX 500 "Polaris" graphics card on Linux and routinely suspend/resume your system, going into the Linux 6.16 kernel and then to be back-ported to the stable series is a fix where the AMDGPU driver could end up producing a lot of spam in the kernel log...

New FFmpeg AVX-512 Optimizations Hit Up To 36x The Performance Of Plain C Code

Phoronix - Fri, 07/18/2025 - 01:06
Some commits merged today to FFmpeg Git provide additional hand-tuned Assembly code for AVX-512 with capable Intel and AMD processors...

Google Continues Working On "Magma" For Mesa Cross-Platform System Call Interface

Phoronix - Thu, 07/17/2025 - 22:27
Mesa 25.2 entered its feature freeze yesterday with many exciting driver improvements with new features and performance optimizations while one feature that wasn't ready for merging in this quarter's release is Magma, which is a recent effort by Google engineers working on a cross-platform system call interface for Mesa. And it's written in Rust...

Single RunQueue Proxy Execution Appears Ready For Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Thu, 07/17/2025 - 18:36
The long in development work around proxy execution for the Linux kernel appears to be ready for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window with the Single RunQueue Proxy Execution patches queued into a TIP branch after going through 19 rounds of patch review/revisions...

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